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Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900

2010 New York University ;ISBN: 9780814757390 ;ISBN: 0814757391 ;EISBN: 081475984X ;EISBN: 9780814759844 ;DOI: 10.18574/9780814759844 ;OCLC: 779828466 ;LCCallNum: F391.M934 2009

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    Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900
  • Author: Moore, Jacqueline
  • Subjects: 19th Century ; Americans ; Cattle trade ; Class ; Cowboys ; Frontier and pioneer life ; Gender roles ; HISTORY ; Labour history ; Masculinity ; Middle class ; Popular culture ; Ranch life ; Ranchers ; Sex role ; Sex roles ; Social aspects ; Social classes ; Social classes - Texas - History - 19th century ; Social conditions ; Social history ; Social life and custom ; Texas ; U.S.A ; United States
  • Description: Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century.As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn't fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine.Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
  • Publisher: New York: NYU Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 281
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780814757390
    ISBN: 0814757391
    EISBN: 081475984X
    EISBN: 9780814759844
    DOI: 10.18574/9780814759844
    OCLC: 779828466
    LCCallNum: F391.M934 2009
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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